Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Department of Homeland Security Media Monitoring Services

You've probably already read by now the solicitation by the Department of Homeland Security Services for media monitoring, not simply of mainstream journalists but also of bloggers and other social influencers.

NPPD’s mission is
to lead the national effort to protect and enhance the resilience of the
nation’s physical and cyber infrastructure.
NPPD includes the Office of the Under Secretary (OUS) and five
sub-components: the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C), the
Office of infrastructure Protection (IP), the Federal Protective Service (FPS),
the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) and the Office of Cyber and
Infrastructure Analysis (OCIA), which are headquartered with the National
Capital Region (NCR). Along with NPPD/OUS,
Public Affairs is responsible for media communication.

The contractor
shall provide NPPD/OUS with traditional and social media monitoring and
communications solutions.

1.3OBJECTIVE

Services shall enable NPPD/OUS to monitor traditional news
sources as well as social media, identify any and all media coverage related to
the Department of Homeland Security or a particular event. Services shall
provide media comparison tools, design and rebranding tools, communication
tools, and the ability to identify top media influencers.

NPPD/OUS has a critical need to incorporate these functions
into their programs in order to better reach Federal, state, local, tribal and
private partners.

2.0SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS/TASKS

2.1 Tasks
One: Online & Social Media
Monitoring

Ability to track global online sources for coverage
relevant to Washington and the six media hubs:

·Ability to browse the database based
on location, beat and type of influencer

·Ability to perform ad-hoc searches
on the database based on keywords, concepts, or using Boolean search terms

·Ability to perform searches in other
languages including Arabic, Chinese and Russian, in order to find influencers
that publish in these languages.

·For each influencer found, present
contact details and any other information that could be relevant, including
publications this influencer writes for, and an overview of the previous
coverage published by the media influencer

·Ability to create unlimited media
lists for specific topics

·Ability to export the contact
details of the media influencers per media list.

·Ability to send out unlimited press
releases via the platform and to monitor the open-rate of the press releases
send out.

·Ability to manage contacts

MAJIA HERE: The aim of total media surveillance is supplemented by an outright push for propaganda creation.

US H.R.5181 - Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016114th Congress (2015-2016), simultaneously penalizes providers for “fake news” posted on their sites and promotes production and dissemination of government “fact-based” narratives to counter fake news that escapes the newly emerging filtering devices.

The act aims to "develop a comprehensive strategy to counter foreign disinformation and propaganda and assert leadership in developing a fact-based strategic narrative" AND promoting a free press in countries vulnerable to foreign disinformation, as illustrated in this excerpt from the bill:

(4) the challenge of countering disinformation extends beyond effective strategic communications and public diplomacy, requiring a whole-of-government approach leveraging all elements of national power;

(5) the United States Government should develop a comprehensive strategy to counter foreign disinformation and propaganda and assert leadership in developing a fact-based strategic narrative; and

10 comments:

So now the oligarchs, and far right have their propaganda websites like rense, jones, enenews comments, and they will intimidate any thing and everyone else.Not to be unexpected. The reptiles at enenews trolled all the antinuclear activists off.

Great guys the mercers, kochs, trump, adelson, neocon democrats. Total consolidation of power by the rich, the nucleoapes, the warmongers. Maga its what the 20% wanted.

We, who live in nuclear countries are not free anyway.

Trump, Started mining the uranium shit again.

Radioactive shit, is shipped all over the country to make bombs, for the massive nuclear death reactors, the shit they say they use in medical to kill people. It is everywhere omnipresent. Trumpo encourage you, yes all you good muricans , to eat japanese food. It is your patriotic duty to support the japanese Olympics! Vote for the liar in chief and its evil nuclear minions, go to enenews and talk about what a great guy trumps is. Stupid evil shits.

Its in the air water food soil. Any particle and or bolus will ruin ya, or kill ya in a bad way. It does the same to loved ones, radioctive, radionuclide murder.

Absolute consolidation of power by the Trump nazis and fascists.

Enformable, can be dull, but it is antinuclear. Has been blocked a while for me. I do not know about anyone else.

The weasles, liars, trolls, backstabbers, spooks, killers, they control things now

There are a few Youtube Videos from Enformable up. When I try to open enformable twitter, cannot do it. Enformable.com takes me to some bogus site, where they try to get into my device. There is some soart of tumblr enformable site. It does not seem authentic. Stange

That is, when I go to twitter enformable,and try to open the enformable.com link, i get taken to a bogus game site. The regular enformable.com says it cannot establish a database connection. The twitter acount will not open. Just the header. I tried yesterday. A week ago it opened. I am very upset.

Ends justify mens christofascist dominionist, bigots-antilife ignoramuses. Hard core narcicissists, haters, psychos and verious other greedy creeps, glulpers devils without a cboncsience, control things now. Will they be stopped before their right wing militia death squads, prince mercenaries, police lackeys, suckasses are turned on the murican people for wholesale slaughters. And mor maseive gulag interrment?

The new world/disorder was the trump, mercer, koch plan all along. Total consolitation of power. Total raping of the economy. Total mockery, and eventual destruction of democracy. How could the minions, be so moronic?

There was a terrible darkness, bloodlust, that built up from years of greed, wholesale slaughter, before the last great depression. They just took everything, that most people had, away from them and felt completely entitiled and justified in doing so. Now the stakes are so much higher. The bloodlust, cruelty, appetite for incurring the most viceral and sadistic, suffering seems to know few bounds.

Durango colorado is a very small town, with a significant homeless problem now. It is like this, all over murica. Not just the cities. Teeming millions of young, middled aged, children. What are the trump fascists solution? Austerity, cut things to the bone, more nuclear bombs and waste, more war.The solution for the homelss in Durango is to make them sleep on a nuclear waste dump outside of town.

Bannon was always a deepstate spook and mercenary. Like Bob roberts handler, in the Gore Vidal Movie. His goal, is to to stir shit up in the world, so the oligarchs and hedge funds can rape and pillage more locally. The bastard, could care less about the encroaching nuclear messes and totalitarianism. Wat a fuker.

About Me

I am a Professor at a large public university. I study political economy and biopolitics (the politics of life). My interests are diverse but are broadly concerned with economic, social and environmental justice. I have published 5 books: Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy and Ecological Sustainability: The Threat of Financial and Energy Complexes in the Twenty-First Century (2016); Fukusima and the Privatization of Risk (2013); Constructing Autism (2005); Governmentality, Biopower and Everyday Life (2008/2011); Governing Childhood (2010).
I also participated in an edited collection on Fukushima: Fukushima: Dispossession or Denuclearization (2014).